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“Proto Thema” Newspaper |
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25.01.2019 |
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https://www.protothema.gr/city-stories/article/858674/to-psifiako-palimpsisto/ |
| Our project was featured at Proto Thema, a national newspaper, introducing it to a wider audience and demonstrating its main features and goals. The article focused on the nature and theoretical background of Palimpsest as an open-air, post-alphabetic and interactive museum as well as the possibilities it can provide to the preservation of the local cultural heritage and the development of tourism and economy.
The project is set out in separate but interconnected phases. As a starting point, cultural heritage assets regarding the city’s stories and legends will be gathered by transgenerational participation, as elementary school pupils will seek information from elder people, whose knowledge of the past is on the verge of becoming extinct. The next phase is about the creation of a MAP in an APP format, which will pinpoint the previously collected data and will support any further collection by online participation. The elaboration of the collected material will then lead to artistic installations that will be implemented in the city and will be activated by visitors creating a dreamlike atmosphere. The article concludes that through the project the conventional experience of the urban public space is transformed into a narrative, interactive and thematic experience, reviving the urban condition. |
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